Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.